Word: tasked
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...firm division that was often compared to the constitutional separation of church and state. These days, however, with economic and cultural changes wrenching the newspaper industry, many journalists are concerned that the once sacred boundary between business and editorial departments has begun to blur. "Editors are facing a harder task maintaining their virginity," says former Boston Globe editor Thomas Winship. David Burgin, editor of the Houston Post and veteran of five other dailies, is more blunt: "The whole notion of autonomy in the newsroom is extinct. Today, if you had Watergate, you would have to check with the marketing department...
...created by the loss of two starters would be enough to hinder a team from capturing a second-straight league title. But when the two starters, Sharon Hayes and Barbarann Keffer, were the top two scorers in Harvard women's basketball history, the task could be overwhelming...
Kosh has been asked to assume some of this task. She will step to the forefront as the point guard, a responsibility she shared with Keffer last year...
Picking a winner of The Game is not an easy task. Whenever Cozza volunteers a prediction, he is wrong, he said...
...placate the right wing of his party. Similarly, no matter how Dukakis had chosen to position himself on the spectrum, it was probably inevitable that Bush would have gravitated to divisive issues like the Pledge of Allegiance. Still, the overheated liberal atmosphere of Iowa certainly made Bush's task easier, if no more palatable. It was, after all, in Iowa that Dukakis boasted that he was "a card-carrying member" of the A.C.L.U...